What does gizmodo.com track?
Before any consent, gizmodo.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading gizmodo.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 22
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Connatix17 requestsAdvertising
cds.connatix.com, capi.connatix.com, pl.connatix.com, cd.connatix.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Marfeel2 requestsAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io, marfeelexperimentsexperienceengine.mrf.io
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- consentframework.com9 requestsUnclassified
api.consentframework.com, cache.consentframework.com, choices.consentframework.com
- opti-digital.com4 requestsUnclassified
scripts.opti-digital.com, optiyield-data.opti-digital.com
- sirdata.eu2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.sirdata.eu, stats.sirdata.eu
- optidigital.com2 requestsUnclassified
pbs.optidigital.com, analytics.optidigital.com
- clk2s.com1 requestUnclassified
gzd.clk2s.com
- abconsent.net1 requestUnclassified
cdn.abconsent.net
- Cloudflare7 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __sdgcm | Unclassified | gizmodo.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | opti-digital.com (third party) | Under a day |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.